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An Honest Assessment of Rural White Resentment Is Long Overdue
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Sounds like we're just watching a dying old man trying and failing to fix issues he either helped create or refused to fight back when there was a chance.
Boy, I was really spot on about you being incapable of accepting anything positive about Biden. It's actually kind of fascinating
He's a disgusting person. He was a senator for 37 years and either directly supported or didn't fight mountains of legislation and we're all paying the price. As if that weren't bad enough now we have to sit around and watch while he absolutely fails to undo all this damage while people like you cheer him on. This is my life. Being subjected to observe an awful human being celebrated for making bare minimum attempts and failing to fix any of the damage he caused.
There is nothing to celebrate here.
Ah, so no bias on your part then...
I'm sorry I'm confused. Are you saying because I'm convinced a person is a piece of shit that makes me biased?
Your hatred has blinded you to objective reality. Either Biden or Trump will be president. There is no third option in our current system. Which is the worse choice?
I will vote for neither. I will be voting 3rd party. I will not reward the people who keep forcing me into deciding between two steaming shitbags. Don't like it? Do better next time.
You make things better by voting for the better of the two options. Pretending there is a third option is just ignorance.
Biden hasn't made things better. He's made things worse at a slower speed. The only people benefiting from that are Boomers who don't understand the urgency of turning things around. All they want is for us to prop up the status quo until they can die peacefully. They don't care what happens to the rest of us.
That doesn't change the fact that there are only two choices. Which is better, Biden or Trump?
I don't care. You want my vote? Get a better candidate through the primaries next time or at least someone who's willing to make material compromises with leftists and progressives.
I didn't vote for Biden in the 2020 primaries. How he does in the general election isn't my responsibility. Ask the people who voted for him in the primaries what their plan was.
So you have no preference to whether Biden or Trump is president?
I'm saying I'd rather die than make that choice.
That is the choice we have. That is the reality. Vote however you want, but I think you know in your heart that one of those choices will be much worse for the country than the other. Sometimes all you can do is minimize harm.
And I'm telling you I won't continue to cater to that. I will be voting 3rd party. All a vote for Biden would do is reward the selfish pieces of shit who voted for him in the 2020 primaries.
I'm not asking who you are voting for. I am asking when the election ends with either Trump or Biden winning, which result will be the least damaging for the country?
Lol keep coping buddy.
Biden can't have my vote. No amount of force feeding me bullshit candidates will change that. If a politician wants my vote they'll work for it.
I'm not asking for your vote. This is hilarious. You can't even bring yourself to say which is worse for the country.
Yes. You can't stand the fact that I'm making my own choice. My opinion clearly didn't matter in the 2020 democratic primaries so it definitely doesn't matter now.
It will matter when whoever becomes the next president picks one or two new Supreme Court justices. Who would you rather do that between Trump and Biden?
My opinion didn't matter in the 2020 primaries so it doesn't matter now. Best of luck or whatever.
I didn't get who I wanted in the primaries either. That's democracy. You don't always get what you want. We get either Biden or Trump. So who do you think would do worse at choosing Supreme Court justices?
Not my problem. Go ask the people who voted for Biden in the primaries.
I'm not interested in their opinion. I'm interested in yours. Which of the two would do a better job picking SC justices in your opinion?
Not my problem. I didn't elect either of them in the primaries.
The decisions the justices they pick will make most definitely will be your problem